This group explores topics in science and technology not typically encountered in our daily lives. For 2026-27, we will consider eight books from different fields, with an underlying theme of scientific aspects of life, human and otherwise, on our planet.

September 29: A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? by Kelly Weinersmith & Zach Weinersmith

November 3: Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe by Carl Zimmer

December 8: The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger

January 19: A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains – A Neuroscience Framework for Understanding Future Machines by Max S. Bennett

February 23: A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness by Michael Pollan

March 30: TBD

May 4: TBD

June 8: TBD